John Moffat stars as the great Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in fifteen BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations. Including:
Evil Under the Sun: On holiday in Devon, Poirot becomes embroiled in the murder of a glamorous American starlet.
Sad Cypress: A poison pen letter begins a chain of events which is to end in tragedy.
Murder in Mesopotamia: When death occurs at an archaeological site in the Iraqi desert, Poirot is on hand to dig for clues.
Lord Edgware Dies: Lord Edgware is found brutally stabbed, his wife the prime suspect. But did she murder him?
Hallowe’en Party: The sleuth investigates the death of a girl drowned in an apple-bobbing tub on All Hallows’ Eve.
Murder on the Links: Summoned urgently to France, Poirot finds his wealthy client dead. Can he trace the killer?
Five Little Pigs: A bride-to-be hires Poirot to solve a sixteen-year-old case and prove her mother innocent of murder.
These BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations find Poirot pitting his ‘little grey cells’ against a variety of cunning criminals.
Based on Agatha Christie’s original novels, these superb adaptations feature a host of distinguished actors including Iain Glen, Fiona Fullerton, Stephanie Cole and Stephen Tompkinson.
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The Toff
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November 5, 2020
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NOT modernising the stories = genius
Contrary to the jadedchap above, I'm happy to see that they haven't mucked about with Christie, who was a genius. People who aren't at that level can only spoil things.
Reviewer:
AMP1972
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August 14, 2020
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Professional work hamstrung by a decision spoiling much.
The sound quality is OK, the voice actors are competent and doing their job (rare enough), but the decision NOT to modernize the stories keeps some a bit bleak, predictable & boring.
Some cases are more convincing than others, and I note that "The ABC murders!" is especially interesting, as Hercules Poirot distinguishes (narrates to us listeners) the difference between the type of murderer eager for attention & mocking the investigators and the kind of murderer hiding the traces and obscuring the investigation instead.
Personally, I also appreciated "A Murder in Mesopotamia".
For fans of Agatha Christie such may not matter, but I remembered some of the makers from:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06spb8w/episodes/downloads
Here, the BBC professionals are limiting their own competences too much to stay submissive to the originals, which are a bit antiquated by now. Well, enjoy!
Reviewer:
Debsw
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January 31, 2020
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Quite Brilliant
John Moffat is to radio as David Suchet is to television in the role of Hercule Poirot.
Great whodunnits with every drama having a wonderful cast.
Cannot praise highly enough.
